High Hopes (1989)

02/24/1989 1h 48m

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Overview

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.

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Cast Ages at Release

Phil Davis

as Cyril Bender

Born 07/30/1953, age

Ruth Sheen

as Shirley

Born 01/01/1952, age

Edna Doré

as Mrs Bender

Born 05/31/1921

Died 04/11/2014, age

Philip Jackson

as Martin Burke

Born 06/18/1948, age

Heather Tobias

as Valerie

Born 01/01/1953, age

Lesley Manville

as Lætitia Boothe-Brain

Born 03/12/1956, age

Jason Watkins

as Wayne

Born 10/28/1966, age